Spatial Inferences in Narrative Comprehension: the Role of Verbal and Spatial Working Memory

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Irrazabal, Natalia Carolina; Burin, Debora Ines
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2016
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During the comprehension of narrative texts, readers keep a mental representation of the location of protagonists and objects; a breach in spatial coherence is detected by longer online reading times (consistency effect). We addressed whether these spatial inferences involve verbal or spatial working memory in two experiments, combining the consistency paradigm with selective verbal and spatial working memory concurrent tasks. The first experiment found longer reading times with a concurrent spatial task under imagery instructions (t33 = 2.87, p =.021). The second experiment, under comprehension reading instructions, found effects of verbal interference on reading times and accuracy. With a verbal secondary task, reading times for the target sentence were shorter (t45 = 3.60, p =.004) and the error rate was significantly higher (t47 = 2.95, p =.005) than without interference. This pattern of results suggests that spatial inferences in narrative comprehension rely mainly on verbal resources, and spatial working memory resources are recruited when imagery is required.
Fil: Irrazabal, Natalia Carolina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Palermo; Argentina
Fil: Burin, Debora Ines. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires; Argentina
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Discourse Processing
Narrative Comprehension
Spatial Inferences
Working Memory
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Spatial Inferences in Narrative Comprehension: the Role of Verbal and Spatial Working Memory
title Spatial Inferences in Narrative Comprehension: the Role of Verbal and Spatial Working Memory
spellingShingle Spatial Inferences in Narrative Comprehension: the Role of Verbal and Spatial Working Memory
Irrazabal, Natalia Carolina
Discourse Processing
Narrative Comprehension
Spatial Inferences
Working Memory
title_short Spatial Inferences in Narrative Comprehension: the Role of Verbal and Spatial Working Memory
title_full Spatial Inferences in Narrative Comprehension: the Role of Verbal and Spatial Working Memory
title_fullStr Spatial Inferences in Narrative Comprehension: the Role of Verbal and Spatial Working Memory
title_full_unstemmed Spatial Inferences in Narrative Comprehension: the Role of Verbal and Spatial Working Memory
title_sort Spatial Inferences in Narrative Comprehension: the Role of Verbal and Spatial Working Memory
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Irrazabal, Natalia Carolina
Burin, Debora Ines
author Irrazabal, Natalia Carolina
author_facet Irrazabal, Natalia Carolina
Burin, Debora Ines
author_role author
author2 Burin, Debora Ines
author2_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Discourse Processing
Narrative Comprehension
Spatial Inferences
Working Memory
topic Discourse Processing
Narrative Comprehension
Spatial Inferences
Working Memory
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.1
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv During the comprehension of narrative texts, readers keep a mental representation of the location of protagonists and objects; a breach in spatial coherence is detected by longer online reading times (consistency effect). We addressed whether these spatial inferences involve verbal or spatial working memory in two experiments, combining the consistency paradigm with selective verbal and spatial working memory concurrent tasks. The first experiment found longer reading times with a concurrent spatial task under imagery instructions (t33 = 2.87, p =.021). The second experiment, under comprehension reading instructions, found effects of verbal interference on reading times and accuracy. With a verbal secondary task, reading times for the target sentence were shorter (t45 = 3.60, p =.004) and the error rate was significantly higher (t47 = 2.95, p =.005) than without interference. This pattern of results suggests that spatial inferences in narrative comprehension rely mainly on verbal resources, and spatial working memory resources are recruited when imagery is required.
Fil: Irrazabal, Natalia Carolina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Palermo; Argentina
Fil: Burin, Debora Ines. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires; Argentina
description During the comprehension of narrative texts, readers keep a mental representation of the location of protagonists and objects; a breach in spatial coherence is detected by longer online reading times (consistency effect). We addressed whether these spatial inferences involve verbal or spatial working memory in two experiments, combining the consistency paradigm with selective verbal and spatial working memory concurrent tasks. The first experiment found longer reading times with a concurrent spatial task under imagery instructions (t33 = 2.87, p =.021). The second experiment, under comprehension reading instructions, found effects of verbal interference on reading times and accuracy. With a verbal secondary task, reading times for the target sentence were shorter (t45 = 3.60, p =.004) and the error rate was significantly higher (t47 = 2.95, p =.005) than without interference. This pattern of results suggests that spatial inferences in narrative comprehension rely mainly on verbal resources, and spatial working memory resources are recruited when imagery is required.
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Irrazabal, Natalia Carolina; Burin, Debora Ines; Spatial Inferences in Narrative Comprehension: the Role of Verbal and Spatial Working Memory; Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Spanish Journal of Psychology; 19; 3-2016; 1-8
1988-2904
CONICET Digital
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